Great whites again!!

[Bill McIntyre]

Speaking of great whites, here a a post to Spearboard yesterday. They were at one of my favorite spots.

The morning started to like a usual day to dive and slay some fish. Got together with jwhit88 and our other friend Tim. Took out a 14’ inflatable to cottons. Our sea vogue was set of Dana point. It was a pretty smooth ride there with some mix swell, water did not look to clear but we still stayed on course.
Once we reached our location, jwhit88 was just about to jump in. My eyes were wondering North of us for some reason, My eyes captured a BIG EXPLOTION OF WATER!!!!. I told our friend Tim “look over there…look” Tim took a glance but was hesitant because he said “Jerry, your full of shit”…few seconds later we both noticed a huge gws thrashing on the surface !!!
Tim and I were stun by what we would had seeing with our too eyes. Jwhit88 did not believe us, -Tim “It was like a scene that could have been in National Geographic footage”
It had to be like 12’+ from the size of the fin was thrashed on the surface. After seeing that moment, we were all double thinking about hitting the water after that. So we hung out for like 30 mins after that, but we all decided to head back to Dana Point.
Yes I know that this might sound like bull but trust me it kept 3 studs that woke up at 5 am and drove 45mins with high expectations from diving.

[beamjoel]

Lockedin,

believe it or not but the boat took the dive on Friday. Thought it would be up and running by sat. but the mech. from Cat ordered the wrong replacement parts for the fuel system. But the captain has rescheduled the trip and were on for this sat. I guess its good because I believe the swell to be down and out by then and the weather is looking like the high 70's. The sound is an amazing place!! The in-laws spend the summer months at their house on Lumi Island in the Sound, so my wife and kids are able to make it up there for a couple weeks each year.

Bill,

Thanks for the encouraging post!!!!!The shark reports even made there way to the sports page this past weekend. I guess the 15-17 ft size was down graded to the 12-14 ft range, I guess I can live with that. I guess I will just keep my head on a swivel!

Good luck all

Joel

[Bill]

"BTW, I was only driven out once: LARGE dorsal fin that we sighted at the old oil piers, just south of Santa Barbara. We never did identify the species, only that it was a LARGE, shark's dorsal fin, about 40-50meters from shore."

We fished that area a lot for salmon in the 70s. A few times each year we'd see one of those guys. The profile is almost identical to a GWS but they swam very calm/slow and were 8-10 meters long. The old timers said they were Whale Sharks but there was a gill netter that used to catch small GWs in that kelp bed a little north of the Ventura pier.

[OceanSwimmer]

We've got a few San Diego Lifeguards in our club, and it's common knowledge that Great Whites are out there; that being said, remember the kerfuffle over the seals at the Children's Pool in La Jolla?
My dad used to say, "where there's food, there's a predator." For sure the GW know there are swimmers and divers. They know you're there. They'd rather eat seal and fish, thank God.
But I wish the seals would go away. I'm really sick of the drama around them.